[Info-vax] VMS defragmenters

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In article <DRXRwJvo3o04 at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <paul.sture.nospam-4266AC.15410817042009 at mac.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" <paul.sture.nospam at hispeed.ch> writes:
>
>> But beware patch kits which may replace those critical files with new 
>> versions without the NOMOVE attribute set.
>
>   I've never seen a patch kit replace sysdump.dmp, pagefile.sys,
>   swapfile.sys, or anything in [0,0].  On my system disks those are
>   the only things VMS puts NOMOVE on.  Even AUTOGEN uses SYSGEN to
>   resize the pagefile et. al., and SYSGEN always leaves NOMOVE on them
>   when it's done.

That's it?  VMB.EXE (VAX) and APB.EXE (Alpha) should be as well.

Moving the SYSDUMP.DMP wouldn't be a problem unless your system crashes.
In this case, hope that you have a valid restorable backup of the system
disk. ;)
 
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